PubSub to Measure Blog Influence by Category
PubSub has begun an effort to compile lists of influential Weblogs by category, which could be of use to media buyers and planners eager to buy advertising in blogs.
Florida Trend carries a lengthy profile of Jimmy Wales, the man behind perhaps the most successful consumer generated media site, Wikipedia. he website is among the 100 mostvisited on the internet, according to the web-traffic analysis firm Alexa. The firm reports that Wikipedia is the 58th-mostvisited site globally, compared to a 69th-place ranking for About.com,…
I attend conferences more for the conversation and inspiration than for the panels. So I was pleased over the past two days to meet a bunch of smart, interesting people. For example, last night at dinner I had the opportunity to sit next to Jim Nail of Cymfony. His company has recently gone through a…
MoveOn.org continues to generate press for itself over its ability to bundle contributions to targeted campaigns. The latest example comes courtesy of the Charleston (WV) Gazette: Early Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sent an appeal over the Internet urging people to contribute to the re-election campaign of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. In less…
PaidContent.org: API’s $2 Million Newspaper Thinktank The American Press Institute has launched a $2 million year-long research project trying to find new business models for newspapers (tags: Newspapers BusinessModels)
First, conservative bloggers followed Hugh Hewitt’s call to "adopt a box" of documents about Judge Roberts and cull through them for interesting information. And now Mark Tapscott takes his mandate as an advocate for Computer Assisted Research and Reporting to a new level by suggesting "Citizen Assisted Research and Reporting" through an examination of massive…
Church of the Customer has an interesting item pointing out that Cooking Light magazine has the right theology: Encourage readers to meet one another via magazine-sponsored "supper clubs." A New York Times article explains how they make money off of the events: McCormick, as a co-sponsor of the magazine-sponsored supper clubs, pays an undisclosed fee…